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The World's Alex Gallafent tells us about two technology correspondents that conducted opposite experiments. One man decided to disconnect himself entirely from the Internet for three days. The other decided to limit all his interactions with others to the online world.

For our Geo Quiz --- we wanted to match some "hard to translate" phrases with their country of origin. ("Poronkusema" means "the distance equal to how far a reindeer can travel without a comfort break". And "Hanyauku-Rukwangali" means "walking on tiptoes across warm sand." The first is heard in Finland, the second in Namibia.) Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Adam Jacot de Boinod, author of Toujours Tingo, a book about the extraordinary variety of international speech.

President Bush will be looking for a closer Franco-American alliance when he has dinner with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's tonight. But as David Common reports from Paris, Sarkozy might have other ideas.

Police in Pakistan are cracking down on thousands of lawyers who are protesting the imposition of emergency rule in the country. President Pervez Musharraf declared the emergency and suspended the country's constitution on Saturday. The World's Aaron Schachter has the latest.